Re: Operationalize orthogonality

>>He fought with his code for days until I pointed out the reversed '+=',
>>and then it took me a half hour to convince him it didn't require a bug
>>in the compiler to treat his code as syntactically correct.

> > Nice anecdote.> > The general principle that I derive from your story is that> implicit conversions undermine the value of static type> checking.

Which is also the general principle of Tony D's reply to Pickie's post
about representing booleans as numbers and strings. Is it not?
Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 10:00:21 CDT